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It's much easier to opt out of corporate sniffing. A Linux laptop with the OS booted from a live-cd comes to mind.. and of course not engaging in all these web-services helps.

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How does booting Linux from a live CD make your packets invulnerable to sniffing? Also, that's not a real solution, even if it did work.

Sure, all it does is to make sure that no cookies are retained and that other things that can identify the user (browser version, fonts, installed extensions, etc.), are more or less defaults which, I assume, makes id more difficult.

I also assume/hope that Google and Facebook etc. are not able to sniff any packets that are not meant for them.

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